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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA ) is an internationally standardised assessment that was jointly developed by participating countries and administered to 15-year-olds in schools. PISA assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society. In all cycles, the domains of reading, mathematical and scientific literacy are covered not merely in terms of mastery of the school curriculum, but in terms of important knowledge and skills needed in adult life.
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20-Jan-2012
In today’s global economy, countries need high-quality education systems that will teach their citizens the skills necessary to meet the challenges of tomorrow. This series of videos, produced jointly by the OECD and the Pearson Foundation, highlights initiatives being taken by education authorities around the world to help school students do better.
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19-Jan-2012
'PISA in Focus N°12' compares the performance of 15-year-old girls and boys in digital reading tests.
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16-Dec-2011
Ten additional economies participated in the PISA 2009 assessment in 2010. Consult the full report released by ACER here (13MB)
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09-Jul-2011
'PISA in Focus' 6 examines the impact of grade repetition on education systems throughout the world.
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28-Jun-2011
Korea tops a new OECD PISA survey that tests how 15-year olds use computers and the Internet to learn. The next best performers were New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong-Kong China and Iceland.
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14-Jun-2011
Some students from disadvantaged backgrounds are high performers in PISA despite the odds being stacked against them. This 5th edition of PISA in Focus examines these students' profiles and explains possible reasons why these students do well.
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20-May-2011
'PISA in Focus' N°4 examines the relationship between performance of 15-year-olds in PISA and the disciplinary climate in class.
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08-Apr-2011
PISA 2009 at a Glance is a companion publication to PISA 2009 Results, the six-volume report on the 2009 survey conducted by the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
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08-Jul-2011
Presentations are now available on line from this seminar which brought together high-level policymakers, administrators, researchers and educators to examine the design and implementation of educational reform in countries with consistently strong student learning performance or rapid improvement in PISA.
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19-May-2011
Mexico has participated in every cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) since 2000. Inspired by PISA 2009 results and in the context of the cooperation agreement with Mexico, a video series entitled "Improving Education in Mexico" has been developed. The series consists of five short video segments (5 to 6 minutes), available in English and Spanish.
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04-Apr-2011
Download the presentation "Building a High-Quality Teaching Profession - Lessons from around the world"
Watch a replay of the webcast of the closing session of the International Summit on the Teaching Profession.
Download the background report - Building a High-Quality Teaching Profession: Lessons from around the world
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Consumer protection: OECD PISA Financial Literacy Study
24-Mar-2011
22/02/2011 - The OECD is testing 15 year-olds on their knowledge of personal finances and ability to apply it to their financial problems. This is the first large-scale international study to assess the financial literacy of young people. The results will be available in the next PISA study, to be released in 2013.
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19-Mar-2011
17-Mar-2011
Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
As fundamental technological and demographic challenges re-shape our economies, the quality of teaching, which is the biggest in-school influence on student learning, is the yardstick for long-term growth, said OECD Secretary-General.
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25-Jan-2010
This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills – as measured by PISA and other international instruments – to economic growth, demonstrating that relatively small improvements to labour force skills can largely impact the future well-being of a nation.
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04-Dec-2009
This report provides and in-depth examination of 15-year old students’ mathematical literacy using the results of the second survey of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA 2003.
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26-May-2009
School students are still being held back by gender perceptions. In most countries, girls and boys now show similar results in PISA, but systematic assessment of gender differences shows that students are still being held back by their own gender-related perceptions.
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28-Apr-2009
Which factors contribute to the successful performance of students in science? "Top of the Class" provides some answers by exploring how the academic achievement of students relates to the characteristics of individual students, schools and education systems.
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Many teenagers in OECD countries lack environmental science grounding, study shows
31-Mar-2009
Teenagers in OECD countries are mostly well aware of environmental issues but often know little about their causes, raising questions about how well societies will be equipped to tackle such challenges in the future, according to a new OECD publication.
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07-Jan-2009
Try out the tests that the students who participated in PISA have taken. "PISA Take the Test" presents all the publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys and others were used in developing and trying out the assessment.
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22-Jan-2009
Learn about the methodology underlying the PISA 2006 survey. The "PISA 2006 Technical report" provides a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses.
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04-Dec-2007
OECD’s latest PISA survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds shows that some countries have seen significant improvements in student performance since 2000.
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21-Dec-2006
The PISA 2003 country profiles tool allows the user to obtain information for a country or set of countries on the performance of 15-year-olds (in mathematics, science, reading and problem solving), their family background and approaches to learning, as well as the way their schools are managed.
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PISA 2009 Results presents the findings from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on reading and also assessed mathematics and science performance.
PISA 2009 Results
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A video series profiling policies and practices of education systems that demonstrate high or improving performance in the PISA tests
